Questions about the Politeness & Register poster

What’s on the Politeness & Register poster?

12 entries in 3 groups. French formality is more codified than English. Essential: Bonjour – say it before anything else, Merci / Merci beaucoup, S'il vous p…; Tu or vous: vous – strangers, older people, work, tu – friends, family, children, pee…; Softening: Je voudrais rather than je veux, Pourriez-vous… ?, Est-ce que je pourrais… ?. Omitting bonjour before a request reads as genuinely rude in France, in a way it does not in English.

Who is the Politeness & Register poster for?

Politeness & Register belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning french can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Politeness & Register poster?

Use vous until invited to use tu. The invitation is explicit — on peut se tutoyer ? A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Politeness & Register belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Politeness & Register?

The Conditional, Adjective Placement and Articles sit alongside Politeness & Register in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The ConditionalAdjective PlacementArticles

Is the Politeness & Register poster free to download and print?

Yes. Politeness & Register downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Politeness & Register poster print at?

Politeness & Register is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Politeness & Register loses nothing.Printing guide